9 Places to Meet Guys This (Seemingly Endless!) Winter

Valentine's Day is over, March is one calendar page away, and yet, your city is likely more fit to host Olympic bobsled races than the actual site of Olympic bobsled races.

So while the Polar Vortex (which I'm pretty sure is one of Magneto's X-Men cronies, right?) has thawed today, come next week, you'll need places to meet dudes and heat up your romantic life. Here are some ideas.

It may have hit 50 degrees this week, but soon you'll be back at the gro sto stocking up for the next snowpacalypse—hopefully stuck in a ridiculously long line behind a ridiculously cute guy who offers to share essentials for survival: Chobani yogurts and Nutella. You'll both agree how miserable this is, and since misery loves company, maybe you can make him yours.

2. The gym

Now is a special window of time after the gym has weeded out those already breaking their New Year's resolutions but before it's welcomed the former frat stars just trying to get jacked for sun's out, guns out season. You'll find the treadmills occupied by perennially fit guys searching for something to look at that's not a replay of last night's figure skating. Hello, you.

It's the heart of the college and pro basketball season. Didn't know that? Doesn't matter. Unlike football, there are, like, 14 games on every night. Go to a bar rocking some kind of sporty T-shirt and feigned interest. Or, better yet, real interest! This strategy has to work: Just look at the girls in those BW3's commercials!

5. The bookstore

At the intersection of Indoor Activity and Rom-Com Meet-Cute lies the bookstore. It only sounds cliche because it actually works.

6. Volunteering

Dog shelters need you more than ever: These pups have been cooped and caged all winter. Same with food banks: Everyone thinks hunger ends after the holidays. If there are any eligible guys there when you are, marry one immediately. He's sure to be a stand-up dude—who likely loves dogs and cooking.

7. The museum

At the intersection of Indoor Activity and Places Where Smart People Hang Out lies…the library. Just around the corner? Its slightly more raucous neighbor, the museum. Maybe it didn't work out for Gena's dating challenge, but any guy who's at the museum and not in sixth grade is a good bet.

8. Coffee shop

Pick a weekend afternoon. Bring books and magazines and a computer and whatever and post yourself up. You'll be amazed at how quickly you feel like a regular, like every person who walks in is a guest in your living room ready for a chat. Cute barista? Find any excuse you can to approach the counter: for a straw, a napkin, one of those stirrer thingies. If you play your cards right, you can have a day of caffeine and conversation for the low, low price of $1.75.

9. Tinder

In bed, whenever. But you're doing this already.

Where else can you meet people this endless winter? And are those spandex suits actually keeping those Olympians warm?